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Fish, It's What's For Dinner (2019)

This project was executed while I was still living in Hong Kong, at the time of the 2019 protests. This was not a project that was at all planned, but rather an expression of anger, sadness, and mania stemming from a feeling of desperation, helplessness and failure. A few days before this, I had been at the October 1st protests, which, at that point, had been the bloodiest in the nations history. The night I took these photos, I had picked up some small fish from the nearby wet market for my dinner. When I got home, in a state blinded but overwhelming emotions, I decided to decapitate the fish and cover its carcass with some dried flowers I had hung up on my while, to the following result. That same night, I wrote the original draft of the short-story The Vanishing Point, which also appears on this site. This series is brutal, grainy and rough, and should be looked at not as a collection of individual images, but as a collective, taken from the scene of a crime. The following photos were all taken on 110 colour film, with a slightly broken Minolta 110 Zoom camera, and have never been retouched or edited in any fashion.

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©2022 by Reda Belhadfa.

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